David Lynch
July 3rd, 2003
Darkened Room (2002)
Rabbits (2002)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Lost Highway (1997)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Blue Velvet (1986)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Eraserhead (1976)
Amputee, The (1974)
The Grandmother(1970)
The Alphabet (1968)
Six Figures Getting Sick (1966)
DIRECTOR
Mulholland Drive (2001)
The Straight Story (1999)
Lost Highway (1997)
Lumiere & Company (1995)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Dune (1984)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Eraserhead (1976)
Amputee, The (1974)
The Grandmother(1970)
The Alphabet (1968)
Six Figures Getting Sick (1966)
Auteur David Keith Lynch was born on January 20, 1946, in Missoula, Montana. Because his research scientist father -- who worked for U.S. Department of Agriculture -- kept getting relocated, David Lynch spent much of his childhood traveling from one state to another. He attended various art schools starting in 1966, when he relocated to Philadelphia where he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and began his first experimentation with film. By the time he was twenty-one, Lynch would be married, and the father of future director Jennifer Chambers Lynch. That experience, plus attending art school in a tough and violent area of Philadelphia, most likely influence his making "Eraserhead" (1977). It was a film that he began writing in the early 1970s while he was producing several short films. The final film was initially judged to be almost unreleasably strange and abnormal. But apparently thanks to the efforts of distributor Ben Barenholtz, it was indeed released and not long after secured a cult following. After the underground success of "Eraserhead", Lynch was able to make his first mainstream film. Displaying an enormous amount of sensibility he wrote and directed "The Elephant Man"(1980). Its enormous critical and commercial success led to another mainstream effort with "Dune" (1984). Though a box office flop, the movie has become another cult favorite when released on video. Lynch's "Blue Velvet" (1986), his most personal and original work since his debut, was the first signal that he was a rising author-auteur. He next won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival with the dark, violent road movie "Wild at Heart" (1990), and achieved a huge cult following with his surreal TV series "Twin Peaks" (1990), which he adapted for the big screen.
Lynch has spent most of his career making bazaar films that tend not to find enough of an audience. Thus studios tended to stay away from the writer/director. But in 1997, Lynch produced the enigmatic production "Lost Highway", though another experimental, dream-like effort that did polarized viewers, it nonetheless was more well received than his other recent efforts. In 1999, "The Straight Story" was released at the Cannes Film Festival. The film, based on a true story, marked a departure from Lynch's seemingly strange obsession with the peculiar.This simple tale of a man (Richard Farnsworth) who gets on his tractor and drives 350 miles to see his brother, it offered few of the dark undertones and twisted subtext that had come to be known as the director's trademarks. It was released at Cannes to generally positive reviews -- and earned Farnsworth his second Oscar nomination. Next we wrote and directed the mezmorizing "Mulholland Drive" (2001), a film which firmly established the writer-director as a true auteur, and a unique and gifted talent. Lynch also draws comic strips and has devised multimedia stage events with regular composer Angelo Badalamenti.
Rabbits (2002)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Lost Highway (1997)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Blue Velvet (1986)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Eraserhead (1976)
Amputee, The (1974)
The Grandmother(1970)
The Alphabet (1968)
Six Figures Getting Sick (1966)
DIRECTOR
Mulholland Drive (2001)
The Straight Story (1999)
Lost Highway (1997)
Lumiere & Company (1995)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Dune (1984)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Eraserhead (1976)
Amputee, The (1974)
The Grandmother(1970)
The Alphabet (1968)
Six Figures Getting Sick (1966)
Auteur David Keith Lynch was born on January 20, 1946, in Missoula, Montana. Because his research scientist father -- who worked for U.S. Department of Agriculture -- kept getting relocated, David Lynch spent much of his childhood traveling from one state to another. He attended various art schools starting in 1966, when he relocated to Philadelphia where he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and began his first experimentation with film. By the time he was twenty-one, Lynch would be married, and the father of future director Jennifer Chambers Lynch. That experience, plus attending art school in a tough and violent area of Philadelphia, most likely influence his making "Eraserhead" (1977). It was a film that he began writing in the early 1970s while he was producing several short films. The final film was initially judged to be almost unreleasably strange and abnormal. But apparently thanks to the efforts of distributor Ben Barenholtz, it was indeed released and not long after secured a cult following. After the underground success of "Eraserhead", Lynch was able to make his first mainstream film. Displaying an enormous amount of sensibility he wrote and directed "The Elephant Man"(1980). Its enormous critical and commercial success led to another mainstream effort with "Dune" (1984). Though a box office flop, the movie has become another cult favorite when released on video. Lynch's "Blue Velvet" (1986), his most personal and original work since his debut, was the first signal that he was a rising author-auteur. He next won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival with the dark, violent road movie "Wild at Heart" (1990), and achieved a huge cult following with his surreal TV series "Twin Peaks" (1990), which he adapted for the big screen.
Lynch has spent most of his career making bazaar films that tend not to find enough of an audience. Thus studios tended to stay away from the writer/director. But in 1997, Lynch produced the enigmatic production "Lost Highway", though another experimental, dream-like effort that did polarized viewers, it nonetheless was more well received than his other recent efforts. In 1999, "The Straight Story" was released at the Cannes Film Festival. The film, based on a true story, marked a departure from Lynch's seemingly strange obsession with the peculiar.This simple tale of a man (Richard Farnsworth) who gets on his tractor and drives 350 miles to see his brother, it offered few of the dark undertones and twisted subtext that had come to be known as the director's trademarks. It was released at Cannes to generally positive reviews -- and earned Farnsworth his second Oscar nomination. Next we wrote and directed the mezmorizing "Mulholland Drive" (2001), a film which firmly established the writer-director as a true auteur, and a unique and gifted talent. Lynch also draws comic strips and has devised multimedia stage events with regular composer Angelo Badalamenti.
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